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Mistress of the Vatican
overlooking her little town and the medieval church, Olimpia was
handed a letter bearing, for a change, extremely good news. On April
12 her beloved granddaughter, Olimpiuccia, had given birth to her first
child, a month before her fourteenth birthday. The labor was fairly easy,
and both mother and daughter were healthy. She called her baby
Costanza, after her aunt and the little girl Olimpia had lost as a young
woman in Viterbo.
Upon hearing the news of Cardinal Chigi’s election, Romans tried to
learn more about his family, whom they expected to come racing to
Rome. Did he have nephews of the appropriate age to become cardinals
and help him run the church? What secular relatives would be made
princes and princesses? How greedy were they? Were there any women
in the family who might try to take over?
The new pope had a brother in Siena, sixty-year-old Mario Chigi, a
man whose means were far more modest than his ambitions. When a
messenger raced to Siena with the glorious news of the election, Mario
was beside himself with joy. He had just won the billion-dollar papal
lottery. Leti observed, “Without so much as putting on new clothes, as
his Wife would have had him, he caused a Horse to be saddled, and
with two servants took his journey towards Rome, having first receiv’d
from one and the other a number of submissive complements, not without
the title of Excellence.” 9
But Pope Alexander VII refused to embark on the slippery slope of
nepotism and sent a messenger to Siena. Before Mario had ridden many
miles from town, he was met by “a gentleman from the Pope with Letters
to him, in which his Holiness did most strictly command that neither
he, nor any of his Relations should stir from Siena to go towards
Rome, under pain of incurring their brothers indignation for ever.” 10
Reading the letter, “poor Don Mario was as if he had been thunderstruck.
. . . All his blood retired to his heart, and left him pale, like a
Ghost, though otherwise corpulent enough. . . . He resolv’d to return
by night to Siena, being asham’d to enter the City by day.” 11
Mario returned home dejected, but his spirits rose when the duke
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